hey it's dr amanda with straight smile solutions straightsmilesolutions.com and
we're going to address this question that came in today when our brace is better and
more efficient than invisalign and i think it kind of alluded to it in the previous video
that i posted i believe a day or two ago but in a nutshell um of course this is going to be
each orthodontist is going to have a different opinion on this topic this is just my opinion
but i also have a ton of experience with invisalign a lot of orthodontists do not
have experience with invisalign or minor they think they do but they really don't so
what gets consumers really confused is when they go to one orthodontist and they're like no
can't do invisalign for this case it just won't work out you have to do braces
and then they find another one that says sure no problem i would probably trust the one that says
shar especially if they can show you some outcomes ask to see if you can see other cases like yours
i mean they have them in their portal and there's a way that they can turn off
the phi or personal health identification so that you could view it without patient's name or data
if they're not willing to show you a case i say don't don't go to that doctor just a little tip
but in any case and of course the other question is going to be can i see my clinch without putting
any money down that is a huge thing you never ever ever want to put money down until you've seen your
clinch you want to make sure that your animation and the what they're promising you is actually
happening and they can do this it does not cost a doctor a cent to make the clinch check and do the
setup of course they want to get their money up front because it takes the time and time caught
you know it's value but most orthodontists will say yes to this if someone says no
this is not a good doctor for you this is a run type of situation because any classy doctor will
say yes to that so anyways um a couple situations where i think braces might be better and they're
few and far between um one of them would be if you had like an impacted molar and of course
this is a third molar and we don't upright those when they get impacted we take them out
but let's say this was a second molar i'm just hypothetically saying this would be a situation
where we could get that up but it would be an exposed on surgery i have to connect it i'm not
saying you can't deal with invisalign because i've done cases with invisalign it's just a 10
times harder and i'd probably charge a lot more or i just say no you know i got to do braces same
thing would be for an impacted canine which we definitely have here or any other impacted tooth
probably better in braces i'm not saying we couldn't switch to invisalign once it came up
we could start in braces and switch to invisalign totally fine with that but there would be a
component of braces in there um otherwise that's pretty much it i mean in my world um i think that
that invisalign is far superior to braces for most cases um of course yes you have to keep them in
your mouth but it's really not that hard and if you think you're gonna have issues putting them
back in then have your doctor tweak the treatment plan so that it's slower so that you can wear them
that makes sense all the time so what i do with doctor with patients that are concerned
is they say fine you wear them when you eat this is not a non-issue then i will
change the treatment plan so that we're going to change trays twice a week instead of once a week
so that they're going to get nasty when you eat with them in you know so and actually that makes
it go faster so that's a win but we're also going to extend it over more trace so we can trade more
often so maybe a 40 case is now an 80 case now of course invisalign doesn't like that because it you
know the overhead is higher for them but hey if it gets a patient to be more likely to do plastic
and not braces i'm all up for that now remember it does cost doctors more on the front end to do
invisalign because invisalign charges it's a lab fee if you want to know what the fee is in the
u.s it's almost 1900 us dollars if they charge the doctor on day one that we approve the case
so our take home might be a little bit less but actually it's really not true because
you have far less five fewer appointments in office we can do a lot of stuff remotely
so yes there is a you know i have a big fee up front that i need to pay invisalign of course
it's less if i do more volume and that's just you know certainly if you see a doctor
who is diamond or platinum you shouldn't have a lot a fee of five to six thousand dollars you
know they're getting a big discount and you really should bring that up say hey i know you're getting
a 38 discount or and you can look at my videos and see exactly how much discount they're getting
you know i i expect your your fees to be lower you know as a result because your overhead's lower
bring it up everything's negotiable you know and if the doctor says no goodbye move to another one
so hopefully this was helpful and giving you guys some verbage so you can get hopefully a
better rate and on your invisalign but also to find the best doctor for you
always okay to shop around make sure you see your clin check before you put any money down
look for someone that says yes look for somebody whose ortho office is at least 50
plastic i'm not saying it has to be invisalign it can be any type of clear aligners but that means
they have experience with it and if you don't see your doctor's name on the plastic bag of
the invisalign um or whatever aligners that means they're crowdsourcing they're going under another
doctor's account that means they're really not as experienced as you thought they were so that's
an honest question is the account under your name or are we doing this under someone else's account
huge thing you need to know nothing wrong with crowdsourcing hey if you can get creative and
get a lab discount especially if you're going to pass that discount down to your patients
and this line doesn't stop you from doing that i think it's shady as heck but you know if you
can pull it off and save 500 on every case i'm going under someone's account i don't know how
the liability works because personally as far as i'm concerned if someone else's name is on the
back that doctor is now involved in my case and if there's a problem i'm coming after you so i mean
i don't like it when people come after me but i'm just saying that i hope that people who are doing
this crowdsourcing you know um and basically just getting free money i mean shoot i could even do
that i mean i thought about it but i mean it also opens my door up to a huge amount of liability i
do not want to put doctors under my name i don't want my name on other patients bags if they
don't know who i am if they're getting my name on their bag i should be partially responsible right
so in any case hopefully this was helpful i hope you have a good day thanks